Laramie Potts is an
American
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scientist
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who identified the
Wilkes Land mass concentration in
Antarctica
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in collaboration with
Ralph von Frese
Ralph R. B. von Frese is an American geophysicist at the Ohio State University who identified the Wilkes Land mass concentration in Antarctica in collaboration with Laramie Potts.
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He is from South Africa. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Applied Engineering and Technology and teaches
geomatics
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(
surveying
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) at the
New Jersey Institute of Technology
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(NJIT).
Education
Potts received his B.S. in Land Surveying in 1984 at the University of Cape Town, his M.S. (1993) and Ph.D. (2000) in Geodetic Science and Surveying at The Ohio State University and an M.B.A. (2016) from the NJIT.
Research
He and von Frese used gravity measurements by
NASA
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's
GRACE
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satellites to identify a 200-mile (300 km) wide
mass concentration. This mass anomaly is centered within a larger ring-like structure visible in radar images of the land surface beneath the Antarctic ice cap. This combination led these researchers to speculate that it may be the result of a large
impact event
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.
Consulting
Potts is part of the leadership team at Northeast Consulting Group, LLC.
References
http://engineeringtech.njit.edu/people/potts.php
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Ohio State University faculty
American scientists
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